[Olsr-dev] About RSSI using / better minstrel

[Henning Rogge]

On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 13:08, Bastian Bittorf <(spam-protected)> wrote:
>> I think you can get the RSSI value of incoming traffic (unicast
>> and
>> broadcast) by station if you use netlink code and nl80211.
>
> in chat mr. 'minstrel' fietkau pointed out, that there is no API
> at the very moment for getting data from minstrel which should
> change soon.
Yes. But there is an API to get the RSSI and "current transmission
speed". Unless they ripped it out again, because I did the patch for
linux to put them in.

Using the "goodput" value would be better of course.

Henning

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